02-05-2025
- Politics
- Irish Independent
Donal Fallon: What the Israeli ambassador got wrong about Ireland's wartime neutrality
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the death of Éamon de Valera, an era-defining politician and figure in public life. It was a political career of extraordinary longevity, taking him from the occupied Bolands Mills of Easter Week to the Ireland visited by John Fitzgerald Kennedy in 1963. Sitting beside the young American, De Valera looked like a relic of an earlier time. JFK, an aide noted, asked the Irish leader about the Rising, and then 'listened, spellbound'.
